Fund Manager Profile
Chirag Gupta
Managing Partner - 8X Ventures
Chirag has held leadership positions at 500 Global (a VC firm with over $2 billion in AUM), Careem (acquired by Uber for $3.1 billion), McKinsey, PwC, and Korn Ferry. During these experiences, he worked in 11 countries.
He began his journey as the “youngest coder in India.” Represented India in global DeepTech forums. Built proprietary simulation AI models to address Saudi Arabia’s massive civil defense challenges. He is now also part of the advisory board of the innovation committee at IIT Chennai. He has an MBA from Chicago Booth-NTU Singapore and a BBS from Delhi University. He also received a scholarship to attend Harvard's Business Analytics Program.
